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>From: address@hidden (Dan Schmitt) >Subject: Netcdf 3.3.1 and support for the 2.* interface >Organization: Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Texas A&M >Keywords: 199712092018.NAA01206 netCDF 3.3.1 compatibility Hi Dan, > The old interface had a define called > > NC_UNSPECIFIED > > for checking the return value when asking > about variable types. This value may not > be needed anymore (and probably never was > as everything got a type) but it may break > code that counted on checking for it. In the ncvalues.hh in netcdf-3.3.1, the define is still there: #define NC_UNSPECIFIED ((nc_type)0) so nothing will break. We intend to leave it defined for backward compatibility. --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu